Martin Sheen
Known for Acting · 351 credits
- Born
- 1940-08-03 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Also known as
- Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez · Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez Phelan
Biography
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).
In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb.
Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors.
Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics.
Known For
TV Shows (85)
The Simpsons
1989
as Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
Two and a Half Men
2003
as Harvey
The Colbert Report
2005
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Columbo
1971
as Karl Lessing
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (uncredited)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The West Wing
1999
as Josiah Bartlet
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Winner
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Eddie Calhao / Arthur Dixon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
Ironside
1967
as Johnny
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
as Self
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
Mannix
1967
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Lieutenant Albert Brocke
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self - Guest
Anger Management
2012
as Martin Goodson
Love, American Style
1969
as Dr. Art Parmel
Spin City
1996
as Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
The F.B.I.
1965
as Norman Gretzler / Perry Victor / Steve Chandler / Neil Harland
Naked City
1958
as Phillip Kosnik / Counterman / Nick (uncredited)
Route 66
1960
Cannon
1971
Grace and Frankie
2015
as Robert Hanson
The Defenders
1961
as Arnold McCabe / Dino Locatelli / Adam Novins / Joey Americus
The Outer Limits
1963
as Pvt. Arthur Dix
Medical Center
1969
as Glen
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Rookies
1972
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Sly Sludge (voice)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Paul Dano
Wild Cards
2024
as Jonathan Ashford
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Ghost Story
1972
as Frank
The Mod Squad
1968
as Danny Morgan
Lancer
1968
Flipper
1964
as Phil Adams
The Nurses
1962
as Carl / Saunders
NET Playhouse
1966
as Kilroy
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Dale Beatty
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Father Kinsella
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
as Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
The American Experiment
2026
as George Washington
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Dan August
1970
as Norman Sayles
Hawk
1966
as Peter Janus
Total Recall 2070
1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Taxi Driver
Toma
1973
as Eddie Siatti
Gun
1997
as Van Guinness
aka Charlie Sheen
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003
as Self
The Edge of Night
1956
as Roy Sanders
Movies (266)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Uncle Ben
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Roger Strong
The Departed
2006
as Queenan
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Captain Benjamin Willard
Spawn
1997
as Jason Wynn
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Catch-22
1970
as 1st Lt. Dobbs
Trash
2014
as Padre Juilliard
JFK
1991
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Badlands
1974
as Kit Carruthers
The Dead Zone
1983
as Greg Stillson
The Final Countdown
1980
as Warren Lasky
Gandhi
1982
as Vince Walker
Wall Street
1987
as Carl Fox
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
as J. Edgar Hoover
Amazonia
2013
as Narrator
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
as Frank Petersen
Gettysburg
1993
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
The American President
1995
as A.J. MacInerney
Selma
2014
as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
The Way
2010
as Tom
Flatland
2007
as Arthur Square (voice)
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Noah Dietrich
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
as Martin Sheen
Imagine That
2009
as Dante D'Enzo
Ask Me Anything
2014
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Robby Navarro
Anne of Green Gables
2016
as Matthew Cuthbert
Come Sunday
2018
as Oral Roberts
Gunfighter
1999
as The Stranger
Dead Presidents
1995
as The Judge
Boca
1994
as Jesse James Montgomery
Da
1988
as Charlie
Consenting Adult
1985
as Ken Lynd
The Double
2011
as Tom Highland
When the Bough Breaks
1994
as Captain Swaggert
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
as Frank Hallet
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
as Doc Hall
Echelon Conspiracy
2009
as Raymond Burke
Firestarter
1984
as Captain Hollister
The One
as Jefferson
The Devil Has a Name
2019
as Ralph
The Boxcar Children
2014
as Grandfather Alden (voice)
8
2012
as Theodore Olson
The Believers
1987
as Cal Jamison
Love Happens
2009
as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Taxi!!
1978
as Taxi Driver
The Maid
1991
as Anthony Wayne
Nightbreaker
1989
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
No Code of Conduct
1999
as Bill Peterson
Princess of the Row
2020
as John Austin
Man, Woman and Child
1983
as Robert Beckwith
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004
Bobby
2006
as Jack Stevens
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
as Narrator
Bordertown
2007
as George Morgan
Hear No Evil
1993
as Lt. Brock
Dillinger and Capone
1995
as John Dillinger
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
Enigma
1982
as Alex Holbeck
Hostile Waters
1997
as Aurora Skipper
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
The Water Engine
1992
as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
An Act of Conscience
1997
as Narrator
Halfway Home
2011
as Narrator(voice)
Cadence
1990
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Pike
Talk to Me
2007
as E.G. Sonderling
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993
Beyond the Stars
1989
as Paul Andrews
That Championship Season
1982
as Tom Daley
The Incident
1967
as Artie Connors
Fortunes of War
1994
as Francis Labeck
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
as Self
O
2001
as Coach Duke Goulding
Salinger
2013
as Self - Actor
The Missiles of October
1974
as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Project: ALF
1996
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Absence of Malick
2003
as Self
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Sir
Miller's Tale
2011
as Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
I Love Liberty
1982
as Self
Guns of Honor
1994
as Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017
as Matthew Cuthbert
Shattered Spirits
1986
as Lyle Mollencamp
Original Intent
1992
as Homeless Joe
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971
as Jules Worthman
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Voyage of Terror
1998
as Henry Northcutt
The War at Home
1996
as Bob Collier
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Artaban
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Alan (voice)
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
as J.W. Garrison
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
as Self
Judgment in Berlin
1988
as Herbert J. Stern
Touch and Die
1991
as Frank Magenta
Roswell
1994
as Townsend
The Time Shifters
1999
as Grifasi
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
as Self
The Last Survivors
1975
as Alexander William Holmes
The Subject Was Roses
1968
as Timmy Cleary
The Andersonville Trial
1970
as Captain Williams
Braving Alaska
1993
as Narrator / Narrator (voice)
A Prayer for Rain
2014
as Warren Anderson
Badge of Honor
2015
as Captain Daniel Richards
Choices of the Heart
1983
as Father Philan
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
as Dr. Austin Raybourne
The California Kid
1974
as Michael McCord
Vietnam: American Holocaust
2008
as Voice
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Eddie Slovik
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A State of Emergency
1986
as Alex Carmody
Pirate for the Sea
2008
as Self
Free Money
1998
as Guard
A Texas Funeral
1999
as Grandpa Sparta
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
as Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017
as Matthew Cuthbert
About Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San S… With 351 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Martin Sheen has appeared in 266 films and 85 TV shows.
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Most Popular Martin Sheen Movies
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) — as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — as Uncle Ben
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) — as Roger Strong
- The Departed (2006) — as Queenan
- Apocalypse Now (1979) — as Captain Benjamin Willard
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